You've been played : how corporations, governments and schools use games to control us all
Hon, Adrian2023
Book
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation - and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. In 'You've Been Played', game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion.
Main title:
Author:
Hon, Adrian, author
Imprint:
London : Swift Press, 2023.
Collation:
308 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Basic Books, 2022.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781800751996 (pbk)
Dewey class:
303.33
Language:
English
BRN:
3677167